Collaborative Practice Centre

A/Prof Joanne Bolton

DR Mary-Ellen Brierley

DR Peter Carew

MS Carolyn Cracknell

MS Donya Eghrari

Prof Walter Eppich

A/Prof David Gallant

DR Charlotte Indermaur Denniston

A/Prof Christine Jackman

A/Prof Vivienne Mak

Prof Elizabeth Molloy

Projects

Projects conducted by research group members

Displaying 10 projects from 26 for the research group.

Practice-Ready Medical Students: Ensuring Readiness for Team-Based Collaborative Practice Using a Participatory Approach

2025 - 2028

Reimagining Services for Children With Disability: Integrated Care and a Future-Ready Workforce

2026 - 2026

Consumers Leading Transformational Change in the Cancer Sector

2024 - 2026

Designing a Critical Pedagogy to Challenge Stigma Among Health Professionals

2022 - 2026

Framework for the Evaluation of MARC Collaborative End of Life (EoL) Hub

2025 - 2026

Completed

Task Shifting in Interprofessional Primary Health Care: A Realist Review

2023 - 2025

Completed

Task Shifting in Interprofessional Primary Health Care: A Realist Review

2023 - 2025

Completed

Scholarly Works

Scholarly Works by research group members

Displaying 10 scholarly works from 570 for the research group.

The CHILD safeguarding simulation study: Co-designed cHild-centred Interprofessional Learning through Dialogue for healthcare professionals

M O’Toole, W Eppich, C Sullivan, N Collins, D Hall, A Walsh, M Whelan, C Mulhall, A Doyle

Journal article | 2026 | Advances in Simulation

Open access

Background: Globally, in excess of one billion children experience violence and abuse every year, leading to upwards of 40,000 dea..

High acceptability of a national platform for public health genomic data sharing and surveillance in Australia: a mixed methods study

C McEwan, D Eghrari, AS Ferdinand

Journal article | 2026 | BMC Global and Public Health

Open access

Background: Pathogen genomics has increasingly been integrated into infectious disease surveillance, outbreak detection, and respo..

Changes in sleep and clinical outcomes in hip osteoarthritis: A longitudinal secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial

H Zhang, F Dobson, K Allison, G Knox, L Spiers, N Egorova-Brumley, DM Klyne, P Ferreira, M Hall

Journal article | 2026 | Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Open

Open access

Objective: To investigate whether improvements in sleep quality and duration are associated with improvements pain and physical fu..

Moving Forward Together. Part 5: Championing Physical Therapy Allyship and Advocacy for Indigenous Peoples With Musculoskeletal Pain

Rachel Toovey, Jane Linton, Ivan Lin, Joanne Bolton, Miranda Buhler, Samantha Bunzli, Ben Darlow, Hemakumar Devan, Blair Dixon, Moni Fricke, Sarah Large, Peter O’Sullivan, Pamela Roach, Robin Roots, Jenny Setchell, Kore Tombs, Ellie White, Brooke Conley

Journal article | 2026 | Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy

SYNOPSIS: In the fifth article of the Moving Forward Together series, we explore the role of allyship and advocacy in improving th..

Publisher Correction: High acceptability of a national platform for public health genomic data sharing and surveillance in Australia: a mixed methods study.

Callum McEwan, Donya Eghrari, Angeline S Ferdinand

Journal article | 2026 | BMC Glob Public Health

Open access

Learning to navigate interprofessional boundaries in health care

J Paxino, C Noble, W Eppich

Journal article | 2026 | Medical Education

Open access

Health professionals must navigate complex systems—and that means negotiating role boundaries. Making this “boundary work” explici..

Improved sleep is associated with improved hip osteoarthritis symptoms: a longitudinal study

Hanzhi Zhang, Fiona Dobson, Kim Allison, Gabrielle Knox, Libby Spiers, Natalia E Brumley, David Klyne, Paulo Ferreira, Michelle Hall

Journal article | 2026 | Osteoarthritis and Cartilage

Navigating Affective Extremes in Antarctica: Coping Strategies for Individuals and Teams in Confined Environments

JB Schmutz, P Marques-Quinteiro, M Antino, F Filha, WJ Eppich

Journal article | 2026 | Environment and Behavior

This study investigates the affective experiences of Antarctic summer research teams through two complementary studies, examining ..

PAIN AND PHYSICAL FUNCTION DID NOT DIFFER BETWEEN BODY COMPOSITION PROFILES IN PATIENTS WITH HIP OSTEOARTHRITIS

Boliang Wang, Alexandra Ryan, Fiona Dobson, Kim Bennell, Shirley Yu, Kim Allison, Ricardo Da Costa, Gabrielle Knox, Michelle Hall

Journal article | 2026 | Osteoarthritis and Cartilage

EFFECTS OF ADDING AEROBIC PHYSICAL ACTIVITY TO RESISTANCE EXERCISE ON EXPLORATORY OUTCOMES AND THEIR MEDIATING ROLE IN PEOPLE WITH HIP OSTEOARTHRITIS

Michelle Wang, Fiona Dobson, David Klyne, Paulo Ferreira, Kim Allison, Gabrielle Knox, Rana Hinman, Kim Bennell, Libby Spiers, Michelle Hall

Journal article | 2026 | Osteoarthritis and Cartilage

News

News by research group members

Displaying 10 news articles from 13 for the research group.

How can I get water out of my ear after swimming?

Peter Carew

Swimming is one of the best parts of summer. But long after you’ve cooled down and dried off, you might be left with a niggling feeling – t..

December 25, 2025

conversation Article

Three things schoolkids need to succeed

Dani Tomlin, Peter Carew, Ruth Braden, Christine Nearchou, Miya St John

As the new school year begins, parents are often busy with new school shoes, covering schoolbooks and hunting out the right lunchboxes and ..

January 30, 2024

Being an effective ally for self-determination

Joanne Bolton

“Self-determination” is a word that entered my vocabulary about 10 years ago, while learning more about what it means to be an Indigenous a..

September 26, 2023

Giving everyone the right to sport

Kalyn McDonough, David Gallant

Sport – and more broadly physical activity – are ingrained into the Australian way of life. They form an important part of the country’s mo..

February 15, 2023

Big dreams of Country and culture

David Gallant, Kellie Hunter

Being on Country and connected to culture is an anchor point for many Indigenous communities’ emotional and social wellbeing. Both of us ha..

May 30, 2022

Our love of sport is now a gateway to gambling

David Gallant, Sean Cowlishaw

Australians are renowned for loving their sports. Sport is woven into our cultural fabric, whether it is the Boxing Day Test, The Australia..

March 9, 2022

Are your kids using headphones more during the pandemic? Here's how to protect their ears

Peter Carew, Valerie Sung

During the coronavirus pandemic, have your kids been using headphones more than usual? Maybe for remote schooling, video chats with relativ..

June 3, 2020

conversation Article

Hearing loss still a challenge for kids

Valerie Sung, Peter Carew

In the last 20 years, we’ve made dramatic advances in the early detection of hearing loss in newborn babies and in providing early access t..

October 1, 2019

Giving prisoners a sporting chance

David Gallant, Glen Turner

The number of people in Victoria’s prisons is soaring. In the past ten years the state’s prison population has jumped by 80 per cent to 766..

June 11, 2019

Vulnerable women trapped by changes to bail laws

Cathy Humphreys, David Gallant

In 2017 and 2018, the Victorian Government made amendments to the Bail Act in order to tighten the state’s bail system. The impetus for cha..

February 13, 2019